the hostility toward proliferation resulted in the war that has killed more people than hiroshima and nagasaki combined. there have been massive expenditures on security and taking your shoes off and airports and everything else. there were potheads like castro -- theirre were hotheads like castro. but from the beginning of khrushchev and kennedy were trying to get out of the mess in the most expeditious way possible. that obviously prevailed. i do not think it is anywhere near where. that is certainly what george mcbundy says. one more thing in the paper that i did not to mention is the containment is something of a farce in the sense that by its on premise, it is wrong. the idea of containment was that the soviet union was rotten to the core and we should contain it. if it is really rotten to the core, you want to let it expand because then it will be worse off. one of hduring that time, accoro their kind of plan, the soviet union expanded by gathering into its camp vietnam, laos, cambodia, mozambique, south yemen, nicaragua, grenada, and afghanistan. almost all of these countries fell into